How can you make your vacation photos more interesting? Just add Ewok.

That's what geeky dad Anthony
Herrera did when he took his kids to the Sequoia National Park in
California:

A year ago we took a trip to Sequoia National Park. I wanted to
excite my daughter while being in such amazing surroundings. Being the
Star Wars geek that I am (so is she), I told her that this is where
the Ewoks live. She spent a good chunk of our time hiking keeping a
lookout for any Ewoks. Coming home I can’t say that she wasn’t
disappointed that we didn’t find any. I had to explain that they
are extremely shy and hardly ever let anyone see them. After we got
home, and after I had a little time alone with the photos, I told her
I thought I saw something strange in a few pictures. We viewed them
on the TV to get a larger image. You can imagine how surprised and excited
she was when we discovered that we didn’t see any Ewoks, but they
saw us, and had certainly taken an interest in her and her little brother.
Maybe I’m a little wrong for lying to her and falsifying the pictures,
but I don’t care. She’ll never forget the time she spent
in the big woods with Ewoks.

All well and harmless. The little girl gets to have a nice experience and is excited about the ewoks that hid in the bushes and one day when she's older, she'll work it out or have it explained and it will be a nice thing to have happened.

....until you can't help yourself and TELL THE INTERNET.

Next thing you know it's the talk of your town, parents are talking about it in front of their children, then your daughter finds out from someone else that daddy's being playing tricks on her.

I think the internet and the Star Wars nostalgia will still be around in a couple of years. I'd have waited.

Still remember the day my parents told me the truth about Santa Claus. I litterely laughed my ass off. ROTFL type of thing. Don't remember _exactly_ why but it was something to do with how so many kids for so long (me included) were being fooled by this unlikely "hoax". The absurdity of it all dawned on me suddenly I suppose.